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AUSTIN — The state’s new grading system will give a better look at how schools are performing — and whether they are improving, Education Commissioner Mike Morath said. Texans will get their ...
A new grading system at Windermere High School in Orange County has some students and parents up in arms over what they call an overemphasis on testing at the expense of other coursework. Under ...
Sterling High School is seeing a change in its grading scale, back to the previous traditional 10-point scale. The school was directed by the RE-1 Valley School Board to make the change back after … ...
Sixteen-year-old Sam Luo nearly panicked when he learned about his Advanced Placement English Language teacher’s grading system at his California high school. Gone was the 100-point system he ...
The district will drop a 1-4 grading system at South Portland High School that replaced a traditional A-F grading system four years ago. The current grading system was part of the district’s ...
Members voted 5-2 to kill a measure to forego the standard grading system during semester 2 to account for learning difficulties during the coronavirus pandemic, while the public voiced its ...
The Fairfax County schools administration is considering sweeping changes to the grading system for middle school and high school classes that could help struggling students keep their grades up.
More than 80 percent of high school teachers agreed or strongly agreed that the grading scale should be revised again, compared with 22 percent of central staff, 71 percent of middle school ...
Students at Mundelein High School would be graded less often next year, but each grade would carry more weight under a plan to switch from a six to a nine-week grading schedule. ”The six-week ...
Fairview High School senior Andrew Prazen measures cattails near Viele Lake in Boulder on Sept. 12. Paul Strode’s science class uses a type of grading system invented by his wife, Sarah Zerwin ...